Colorful poison Frog

For about 50 years researchers have painful poison frogs and ground up the tissue to learn its chemistry. The practice, however, was listening carefully almost entirely on extracting the toxins, which can have pharmaceutical application.

"Skinning [was] a normal practice, but in the previous couple of decades, improvements in technology have skyrocketed”. Our compassion to detect and analyze compounds is much better, so we can do a lot more with a lot less."

For frogs of the Mantella genus of Madagascar, the machine helped isolate bile acids and sugars never before seen on frog skins

Strange Animal facts

A headless cockroach can survive for a couple of weeks. Its life would finally end due to starvation!

No dentist for this creature! Crocodiles, through their life grow new teeth that replace the old set!

A crocodile can never stick its tongue out of its mouth.

Gaggle is a group of geese waddling on the ground. And the same group up in the air would be renamed skein.

On an average, a hedgehog's heart beats 300 times, per minute.

A standing 4-foot child can fit into the open of a hippopotamus.

A coin is heavier than a hummingbird!

It would take just one night for a mole to dig a tunnel measuring 300 feet in length.

A chicken can fly for more than 13 seconds at a stretch.

The butterfly was originally known as the ‘flutterby’.

The donkey’s eye placement helps it see all its four feet at a time.

All the termites of the world outweigh the human beings of the world. The ratio is 10:1!

The chow is the only dog that does not have a pink tongue.

Where will grizzly bears journey?

The self-governing assessment, written by WCS Senior Conservation Scientist Dr. John Weaver, is a collection and mixture of the latest information on these species and how climate alter may affect them from 30 biologists in the region and from nearly 300 methodical papers. In addition, Weaver spent four months hiking and riding horseback through these distant roadless areas to evaluate their importance for conservation.

The Crown of the Continent is a trans-border bionetwork of dramatic landscapes, pristine water sources, and varied wildlife that stretch more than 250 miles along the Rocky Mountains from Glacier National Park-Bob Marshall Wilderness in Montana north to the Canadian Rockies. Weaver listening carefully his evaluation on public lands in the Montana portion one of the most spectacular and intact ecosystems remain in the lower 48 states. Since 1910 when Glacier National Park was established, citizens and government representatives have worked hard to keep the core wildlands and wildlife in this region.

"These prophet leaders left a great gift and remarkable legacy," said Dr. Weaver, "But new data and up-and-coming threats like climate change point to it may not have been sufficient. There is a rare chance now to total the legacy of conservation for present and prospect generations".........

Three-Foot "Shrimp" have additional Than 30,000 Lenses per Eye?

A shrimplike super predator of the very old seas may have had additional than 30,000 lenses in each eye, granting the animal improved vision that would have rival or exceed that of living insects and crustaceans, a new learn says.

The finding is base on a pair of 515-million-year-old stalked eyes belong to the meter-long (three-foot-long) Anomalocaris, whose Latin name translate roughly to "weird crustacean."

The ancient eyes—each about 0.8 to 1.2 inches (2 to 3 centimeters) long—were found in shale deposits on Australia's Kangaroo Island.

Unlike umans—whose eyes each have a solitary, large lens—insects and crustaceans have eyes with multiple, usually hexagonal lenses, each of which transfer separate bits of information to the brain.
When study co-author Diego C. García-Bellido and colleagues began counting Anomalocaris's fossilized lenses beneath a microscope, they could scarcely believe their eye.We're chatting 16,000 lenses on half an eye," said García-Bellido, a paleontologist at the Spanish Research Council in Madrid."Wow—that was the most mind-blowing feature of it all."

The other side of the pair of Anomalocaris eyes is entrenched in rock and can't be studied, García-Bellido said, but it's possible both sides had equal amounts of lenses.

"Great White Shark" of Its Time?

The main animal of the Cambrian period (542 to 501 million years ago), Anomalocaris had a round, plated mouth with teeth-like serrations and spiny arms for grasping prey such as trilobites, a type of extinct arthropod.
At the Kangaroo Island site, scientists also found Anomalocaris coprolites—or fossilized poop—in the shale deposits. (Read more about fossil feces.)It's quite incredible—you find bits of pieces of trilobites in it," said García-Bellido, whose team has received funding for future work from the National Geographic Society's Committee for Research and Exploration. (The Society owns National Geographic News.)

The new study offers more proof that the creature was the super predator of its era—"probably the great white shark of the Cambrian ocean," García-Bellido said.Anomalocaris and its relations were so successful, in fact, that they lasted for another 40 million years until probable being outcompeted by fish.

Scooter, the 3-legged kitten, needs your help!

Unlicensed Dog get Bus for a turn

Likely driving without a license or even a learner permit, Richard McCormack's dog, Woodley, manage to dislodge the handbrake of McCormack's double-decker bus and drive downward a major road in Darwin, Australia yesterday. McCormack believe that Woodley, a 2-year-old German Koolie, erudite how to drive by observing him driving the means of transportation over the last two years. Woodley allegedly took the vehicle for a spin while McCormack was in a store.

"I came out and saying the bus going down the road. I couldn't believe it," McCormack told The Sun. it seems that this isn't the first time Woodley has attempted to go all Thelma & Louise, McCormack explained. "He sits next to me when I'm driving and in the driver's seat when I'm not. The brake pedal is on the dashboard and he's seen me let go it many times. He was just copying me. He's tried it before," said McCormack.

According to NTN News, Bystander Phil Newton could not believe his eyes when he saw Woodley driving the 20-ton, double-decker bus from side to side Darwin's industrial zone (...as Woodley usually drives a compact hybrid.)

The vehicle was finally brought to a stop when Newton jumped in an open window and put the handbrake rear on after considering that a dog was navigating the mobile home. "This was weird, even for the Northern country," Newton told NTN News.

Bears leave hairless at Zoo expert bewildered

A spectacled bear name Dolores (pictured) is fairs an unconventional look after losing approximately all her hair.

Since 2007 the female spectacled bear and two of her female kin at Germany's Zoo Leipzig have been going hairless—mysterious experts. Zoo experts are operational to cure the bears' non-life-threatening condition, zoo curator

Spectacled bears—also called Andean bears—live in the mountains of South America and are the continent's only bear species. Armando Castellano, leader of the Andean Bear Conservation Project in Ecuador, said that he'd seen a similar case about a decade ago in a rescue spectacled bear.

"We were very scared, because it was the primary time we had seen this," Castellano said.

Keepers in Ecuador place that bear, which had before been fed human food—counting Coca-Cola—on its usual diet of fruits and bamboo, and added enhancement items, such as toys and exotic foods, into the bear's enclosure. Four months later the fur grew back.

Alike cases have occur in a Bolivian zoo and in Peru, Ximena Velez-Liendo, a spectacled bear specialist, said by email. It’s unidentified whether a be short of of nutrition is the culprit in the Leipzig bears' situation. awaiting a cure is found, keepers have been applying medical ointment to the bears' skin, which becomes itchy without its defensive fur.